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It is total heat advantages, if they were 4-2 or 5-1 or 5-0 or whatever doesn't matter. The score achieved doesn't matter. It is heat advantages, it cannot be any simpler than that.

Crazy to think that we had the Skybet Elite League, the top riders, a 10(!) team top division not that long ago really. It just so turns out that Terry Russell and co weren't quite the promotional gurus that Eddie Hearn is. Who could've guessed.

It's always in November - usually the 2nd week - to rubber stamp what has been discussed (and tentatively agreed) at their monthly meetings. Also each club has to submit its accounts and give its intention to run, and at what level, the following season. Their most recent meeting was last Tuesday in Barnsley(?) and I guess individual decisions about next season will depend on the final bottom line of each clubs accounts and/or what additional financial carrots can be offered to any potential Premiership clubs?!

Seen many young riders like that……sometimes they flatter to deceive and never move on and learn to pass ….others fall off lot trying then entually stay on and move up the ladder….only time will tell,,,, would suggest Poole not the best track to learn the art of passing ?

“I think its the most 50/50 playoff final yet” what a funny expression🤣🤣 so it’s a 60/60 playoff final then? Nah don’t believe it….. the boy Nigel has never ridden Wimborne…

Unfortunately seeing him at worky on Saturday and in the local establishment in the evening,looks like cairns has had a big growth spurt and will probably keep on growing for a little bit, looking to be the wrong build for a speedway rider now

He did as it was Hodder and Trigger in KOC. Down to Dayle Wood then, which is prob the best option at Poole anyway.

If he did, it would.

Speedway and logic.No such thing.

Whatever Workington race in next season I will support which choice they make even if it is the National league.

I agree wanting the second leg at home could be beneficial from that point of view, no advantage over 30 heats (unless it's a tie). A good away performance could mean a big crowd. Only danger is having a 30 point away loss, meaning a poor home crowd.

3-3 is a draw

Can someone explain the logic behind the rule. If most heat advantages decide the tie, what's the reasoning behind two 4-2s being better than a 5-1 & a 3-3?

I think having the 2nd leg at home is all about being able to celebrate the aggregate win in front of the home fans - assuming you do actually win it of course!!😉

Did Smith not guest for Redcar in the first leg of the play off semi? Would that not also make him ineligible?

I am most certainly not having a dig at him. I am calling his ability as it currently is for a 16 year old. Talented but a long way to go. If Will misses the start he struggles to pass and tends to follow the rider in front around. Next season will see improvements.

First of all glad to hear that any injuries to the fans were minor. Like the Edinburgh incident when Craig Cooks? flying bike struck a photographer, it seems the fans got off likely. Secondly such a shame the meeting was decided in such a way. With it all square with one to go, the round was on a knife edge and either team could have gone through. Glasgow must feel hard done by, Redcar relieved. Neither club deserved to be knocked out in such a manner. But the rules are in place for such a scenario and were implemented. Congrats to Redcar, commiserations to Glasgow.

Two teams have a tug of war OR - team captains arm wrestle (would have said wrestle, but seen Charles in action give Redcar huge advantage 😆) and would have said TMs, but that give Glasgow big advantage (IMO)

Can't really trust the clubs to get all the fixtures on to allow re-stagings tbh. The fact 3 finals are having to be raced in October despite clubs having fewer fixtures these days, shows that. In an ideal world I'd agree with you. My plan would be to never let it go to a ballot (thankfully this didn't) by adding more ways to decide a tie.

The play offs are popular, not with everyone but in an age where every penny counts while it gets crowds it’s here to stay, individual meetings or 4tt or pairs are just not well supported anymore unfortunately, as I’ve banged on about for a while the bikes are no faster today than forty years ago, what is faster is the speed of the back wheel which has increased decade on decade but race times are relatively the same and in the last 2 years seem actually to be slower, the 4 valve engine had no real bearing on the popularity of the sport, it just happened at the same time of the decline but it wasn’t the cause,the return of the 2 valve engine isn’t going to make the sport any more popular, it won’t change anything except maybe a bit of cost, price is a factor though but the decline of speedway is 90% what happens outside the safety fence, the bond between the fans and riders has been lost

Surely a more satisfactory decision would be a re -staging.IMO. Scotty with his stupid coin will probably what they would come up with though.🤔

Agreed, I don't understand some people being adamant that the second leg at home is an advantage. Poole had home leg first in KOC Semi & final & won. Redcar had home leg first in KOC semi & won. Edinburgh had home leg first in KOC against Workington & won. Oxford had home leg first against Scunthorpe in the KOC & won. Poole had home leg first in the P/O semi & won. Surely that's far too many instances to prove there is no "second leg at home advantage"?

That’s my point, has it even got a scheduled date ?